Ok man... I dunno if you are aware of it or not, but what you see in
"top" is pretty irrelevant. On my system, I could have.... say...
SETI@HOME running. The thing takes 100% cpu... EXCEPT when something
else is running... then it takes what is left. It is executed on a
different priority level, and you can certainly jam firebird into sucha
mechanism, probably with the "nice" command.

Firebird, like EVERY OTHER APPLICATION uses as much CPU as it needs, and
the Operating System divides up the processing time. The reason
something like a python script would only take 1.5% CPU vs. 100% is a
lot of waiting inbetween stuffs.

Jason

Maurice Ling wrote:

> --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Nando Dessena <nando@d...> wrote:
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>>Maurice,
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>>ML> I sense some defensiveness......
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>>oh, you'll get used to it. ;-)
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>>Ciao
>>--
>>Nando Dessena
>>http://www.flamerobin.org
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> As mentioned before, I am not against FB, so no point getting
> defensive on me. I am FOR firebird. Heck, the first peer-reviewed
> paper I wrote in my career is on work done using then Interbase 6.
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> If there is indeed a problem, lets get to it. In my case, the SQL
> selects that I used are straight forward single table queries, not
> some unreadable convolution.
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> maurice
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